1733: Meeting with Shacco Will

Many have identified Byrd’s Shacco-Will, a guide, with Eno Will, Lawson’s guide, and have pointed to this incident as symbolic of the demise of the noble savage and of the Siouan tribes.

… we sent for’an old Indian called Shacco-Will, living about seven miles off, who reckoned himself seventy-eight years old. This fellow pretended he could conduct us to a silver mine, that lies either upon Eno river, or a creek of it, not far from where the Tuscaroras once lived. But by some circumstances in his story, it seemed to be rather a lead than a silver mine. However, such as it is, he promised to go and show it to me whenever I pleased. To comfort his heart, I gave him a bottle of rum, with which he made himself very happy, and all the family very miserable by the horrible noise he made all night.